I've always said to play Hakan as CAM (I have the same opinion about Paqueta) but what made the biggest difference is Ibra. Ibra has presence, he pulls defenders, he demands the opponents to pay attention to him thus giving Hakan space. Additionally and more importantly, he has given this whole team confidence, and a few players in particular have been more affected, Hakan being one of them. IMO Hakan won't keep these levels up, but he's definitely earned a starting spot in this team. Before this there were a lot of calls to sell him and get a different CAM like Castrovilli and at the time I would have supported this, but now I'd say sell Paq and get Castrovilli or Chiesa instead as Hakan seems to be easily out-competing Paqueta for the starting spot, night and day.